Blizzard 2060 & TekMagic 060?

[Damion]

@dannyp1

Actually, I get *much* faster results with the TekMagic SCSI, compared to the Blizzard on amigaresource (even using FFS). I can post them later for your comparison. Technically, I would guess the SCSI should perform similar on both... same SCSI chip and all.

The TekMagic also returns slightly better AIBB numbers. (Trivial difference, though.)
 
The big disadvantage with the TekMagic is the SCSI controller won't automount SFS or PFS3 partitions, it only looks for filesystems in ROM and ignores the RDB. However, it does work fine with SFS in ROM.

@zipper

I tested the p5 libs and cyberpatcher, and they seem to work just fine on the TekMagic. Normally I use mmulib, muredox if needed... muredox is kind of interesting because it can show you which, if any, instructions were patched after running a program.

[Damion]

-double post-

[Damion]

SysSpeed drive benchmark:

TekMagic/Blizzard, 50MHz, FFS

Create: 844/116 op/s
Open: 502/599
DirScan: 1080/2365
Delete: 2394/1194
Seek/Read: 5238/2899
CreateFile: 4.82/2.30 mB/s
WriteFile: 5.76/2.90
ReadFile: 8.71/4.24
RawRead: 9.31/6.91

The only faster SCSI on amigaresource.cx is the CSMKIII/PPC. However, I'm thinking most of the benchmarks submitted were either from old drives, or drives not configured correctly, since my guess is that the controllers (53C710) should perform similarly with the same setup.

Memory benchmarks also favor the TekMagic, it falls roughly between the CS MKII and MKIII.

However - a big plus for the Blizzard is the ability to use Blizkick. That, and the lack of the SCSI bug makes it far less hassle to set up IMO. To get the same funtionality with the Tek, you've got to burn a custom ROM.